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VOL. XLVI. NO. 14,210. PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WIDER SCOPE TO 1 CONTROL Feature of First Ses sion 59th Congress. ONE MORE STATE IN UNION Record for Voluminous Speech Is Broken. ENORMOUS MASS OF BILLS Although ETery Effort Wa9 Made to Economize, the Appropriations Passed Will Be Little Less Than $900,000,000. SOME OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED. . Federal control of railroad rates, inspection of meat and foodstuffs ex tended. One and perhaps two states added to Union. Tax on denatured alcohol removed. Lock canal to be built at Panama. Philippine tariff Is revised. Appropriations will reach about !IO0.OOO,OO0. Expenses of Government depart ments to be more closely scrutinized. Permanent annual " appropriations Increased to $140,000.0(10. Two measures affecting laboring men are passed. Construction of the biggest battle ship afloat is authorized. Alaska Is given a delegate In Con gress. Responsible Indians to be given full citizenship. WASHINGTON. June 24. Important measures extending; Federal regulation and control have been enacted at the first ses.-lon of the 59th Congress. The rail road rate and the meat Inspection bills will soon become laws, and before ad journment both houses will have passed pure food bills, which, though dissimilar In terms, are both based on the same principle of Federal control. It Is the present Intention to try to adjust these difference before adjournment. There has been no marked division on party lines In effecting? these results, the differences being only as to ways and means rather than as to policy. Besides branching off Into this new field of legislative endeavor, the present session has made itself important ' in other ways. It has added one, and per haps two new states to the Union, and by so doing has disposed of four terri tories. Great results to the people are expected from the removal of tax on denatured al cohol, and. if predictions are fultilled. heat, light, and power are to be supplied by alcohol made from the cornfields of the country, from sugar beets and sugar cane, from fruits and other vegetables. Panama Canal Puzzle Solved. By a deft turn' of legislative points of view the questions that have perplexed Congress for some time regarding the Panama Canal have been settled. The President may dig a lock canal as fast as he pleases. A Joint resolution was agreed to requiring canal supplies to be made of American manufacture. Congress has not Jealt with the for eign situation to any extent. An act making a much-needed reorganization of the Consular service was passed. Noth ing was done In the Santo Domingo con troversy, and the legislation affecting our colonial possessions was meager and unimportant, although tariff revision for the Philippines received the attention and approval of the House, and an act was passed revising the tariff collected by the Philippine government. A coinage act for the islands also was passed. Talking Jtecord Is Broken. But Congress talked about our own tar iff laws. It broke the record for words. Thousands and hundreds of thousands more than have been uttered at any other session were compiled in the Congression al record. Not only on the floors of the two houses has the word record been heavy, but the publications resulting from committee sessions on the subjects are larger and more numerous than at any previous session. A large number of bills were introduced In the two houses. The calendar re cords that the number has reached nearly 20.000, BOO more than were Introducer! dur ing the entire three sessions of the last Congress. Before discussing the number of acts passed. It Is interesting to note that with all the strenuous exertions of an ap propriation committee In the House with a new chairman Representative Tawney it has been Impossible to hold the ap propriation down to much less than J900, O0O.0O0. although "economy" was the watchword from the start. One of the Important features of the session has been the careful scrutiny with which the Democrats of the differ ent Government departments has been received by the House appropriations committee. The hearings accorded to Government officials asking for money to run thetc departments and bureaus have been more exhaustive than ever before. The result has been the enactment of restraining legislation on nearly every appropriation bill, which it Is expected will have a beneficial effect hereafter. In this class is undoubtedly that re quiring the heads of all executive de partments to apportion the appropriations they receive In equal parts to avoid de ficiencies. This is to be done under pen alty. Tf only excuse will be some un foreseen emergency, and unless this can be shown the head of a department ask ing for a deficiency appropriation shall be summarily removed and lays himself liable in the future to fine and even Im prisonment. Other Checks on Expenditures. Another matter of economy is the tak ing away from, the clerk the right to se cure a transfer to another department at a higher salary until he has served three yeare in, the position he wishes to aban don. The prompt turning into the treas ury of all moneys collected by heads' of departments) as Government revenue is another safeguard against extravagance. It was found that during the past year one department had collected revenue to the amount of $730,000 and disbursed it without authority of law. A strict accounting Is hereafter to be received from all United States Court clerks. A revelation that one such clerk had received emoluments amounting to $336 in one day brought about this pro vision. Although there has been an effort to prevent the enlargement of what is known as the "permanent annual appro priations," this character of expense has Increased during the session to the ex tent of nearly $5,000,000, making a total permanent annual appropriation' of more than 140,000,000. Measures were intro duced on which action will be pressed at the next session, to repeal a portion of the permanent annual appropriations of the Government. Organized Labor Recognized. Organized labor nas succeeded in its re quests of the present session of Congress to the extent of securing the enactment of what is known as the "employers' lia bility blH." This enactment will make it possible for an employe to secure dam ages for his injuries, notwithstanding his own negligence may have been in part responsible for that injury. Another bill that doubtless will become a law Is that limiting the hours of con tinuous service of railway trainmen to 16 consecutive hours' work, to be followed by ten hours' rest. The much agitated eight-hour day bill received a favorable vote in the House from the labor commit tee, but too late to secure action at the hands of Congresa The anti-injunction bill was postponed in the committee until next session. One of the novel features of law-making was the enactment of a measure to preserve the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls. This action was In direct response to a popular demand that, the falls be not denuded of their beauty to serve the pur pose of commerce. ' Biggest Battleship Afloat. Enthusiasts for the "greater Navy" re gard the legislation of the session aat' itlal to preeor jr,. j-tti of that afm of tiur fighting force. Congress authorized the construction of the "biggest battleship afloat,-' with the provision that before the plans are. submitted or bids received or accepted, the plans of the ship must be submitted to Congress at Its next session. This provision was fought In the House with great zeal and was carried by but a small majority. Hazing at the Naval Academy was given a further legislative rebuke by the pas sage of a bill giving the Secretary of the Navy discretion to dismiss or otherwise punish hazers. at that institution. Marking of Confederate Graves. A law was passed which will result in appropriate markings being made over the graves of Confederate veterans of the army and navy who died in Northern prisons during the Civil War. The wear ing of the insignia of the Grand Army of the Republic or other soldier inslgnlas by other than members of these organiza tions is made a misdemeanor. The Presi dent was authorized to take the neces sary steps to preserve "American antiqui ties by creating Government reservations in locations where such antiquities ex ist." Alaska was given the right to send a Delegate to Congress, and an act was passed whereby that territory will have a larger school and public improvement fund. The Secretary of the Interior was also authorized to allot homesteads to the natives of Alaska, v Many Shipping Measures Passed. Although the ship-subsidy measure did not become a law, 24 public acts relative to shipping were enacted. These were all minor In character and Inaugurated no new policy. The application of the coast wise -laws to the Philippines was' post poned until 1909. An omnibus bill author izing the erection of a number of aids to navigation became a law. Liberality towards the Indian, the ward of the Nation, characterized the several enactments on that subject. The tend ency shown was to grant full citizenship to those Indians who show capability for it; to open for settlement certain of the reservations, the proceeds to go to the Indians and In one Instance to provide for the distribution of the tribal property to Individuals of the tribe. Bills Relative to Court Procedure. Ten bills relative to the courts of the United States were passed. The impor tant measure relative to court procedure Is that which prescribes the exact procedure which must be followed by witnesses to secure Immunity from prosecution later. President Roosevelt was given $25,000 to pay traveling expenses of himself and In vited guests. The private pension legislation of the session was heavy and many hundred such acts will be signed before the end comes. The Jamestown, Vs., Centennial is ex pected to be recognized by law before the session ends. A bill introduced by Representative Sherman, of New York, was passed and will make it unlawful hereafter to stamp the words "Government assay" on arti cles manufactured of gold and silver. Fall Overboard In Panic. RED WING, Minn., June 24. During a panic caused by the explosion of an al cohol lamp on board a launch conveying a picnic party up the Mississippi this af ternoon, Edith and Grace Mettum, sla ters, aged 13 and 14 years fell overboard and were drowne CRACKSMEN OB JEWELRY STORE Take Articles Valued at Nearly $3000 from Jaeger Bros.' Establishment. CRIME BOLDLY COMMITTED Daring Burglars Break Into Place Through Barred Window in Early Morning Scatter Loot in Mak ing Their Escape. Diamonds and other gems valued at more than $2000, together with watches; bracelets and Jewelry of great value, were stolen from Jaeger Brothers' Jewelry store, at 290 Morrison street, early this morning. The burglars made their es cape as quietly as they had gained en trance to the store. The robbery was one of the most dar ing ever perpetrated in Portland, and was committed so hurriedly that in their flight the burglars scattered gems and Jewelry along the floor from the iron barred window through which they gained entrance to the rear door through which they made their exit. Entrance was gained to the store in a most daring manner, and the work was probably performed by expert cracks men, who had obtained the lay of the ground before the job was attempted. Climbing over an open transom in the rear of the building, the burglars pried open the door of a shed with a jimmy and with crowbars smashed a pane in a window opening Into the store. With the same tools they pried apart two steel bars which formed part of the barricade. Before gaining entrance, a large frame door was also smashed in, but as steel bars supported the door the burglars gave up the attempt to gain entrance in that manner and confined their operations to the window. Two men were probably Implicated in the theft, as only one man, and he, a small one, could have squeezed through the bars at the window. The lights in the rear part of the store had been extinguished at 11:30 o'clock, and only small lights were burning in front. The robber opened the showcases on thr vlifie of the establishment. In which had been placed a tray of precious stones, and carried the gems to his part ner in the rear of the building. A box containing necklaces, watches, rings and bracelets was also taken. Mr. Jaeger said this morning that a rough estimate of the value of the articles taken would be between 52000 and $3000. The exact value of the jewels taken can not be learned until an inventory of the stock is taken. GAELIC CANNOT THRIVE AMERICANS WILL TALK NOTH ING BUT ENGLISH. Dr. Hyde Arrives at Quecnstown ' and Teils of Splendid Recep tion. In United States. ' QUEENSTOWN, June 24. A number of Irish deputations greeted Dr. Douglas Hyde, president of the Gaelic League, when he debarked from the Jlner Celtic yesterday, and presented to him addresses congratulating him on his splendid re ception in the United States and especial 1" for the honor of being received by President Roosevelt. President Hyde said he would never forget the kindness and munlficience of the American people and the Irish people owe them much gratitude. Although his mission was successful. Dr. Hyde did not think there is any pros pect of spreading the Gaelic language in the United States or Canada. No language would live there except the English. German, he believed, would be come extinct there in the next generation. DYNAMITE AT THE DOOR Forty Men at Quarry Have Narrow Escape from Death. ST. PAUL, June 24. A special to the Pioneer Press from Helena, Mont., says: Forty men had a miraculous escape from being blown to atoms last night when the powder-house at the Harris lime quarry, 10 miles from here, was ex ploded by some unknown person. The men were asleep in a brick house near by and lops from the powder-house were blown over the house. Against the door of the house was found a sack containing 35 sticks of dynamite, to which a fuse had been attached. This is said to be the second mysterious explosion at the quarry within the past few weeks. Many believe that a crazy man, who is reported to be roaming about the country in that neighborhood and who several months ago shot and wounded two telegraph operators, perpetrated the outrage. VESPER CREW IS BARRED Henley Stewards Accuse Philadel phians of Professionalism. HENLEY. June 24. Besides declaring Saturday that no further entries shall be accepted from the Vesper Boat Club, of Philadelphia, the Henley stewards, by unanimous vote, declared that no entry comprising any member of the Vesper crew of 1905 should be accepted in the future. The resolution also stated that the committee was not aware that a public subscription was being raised to defray the expenses of the Vesper crew or their entry would not have been, ac- E VENTS OF COMING WEEK Harvard-Tale Regatta. Thursday the Harvard-Yale regatta will be held for the 28th time on the ' 'Thames River, at New London. Conn.. The spectacular race between the - varsity eights last rear, the unbounded confidence of Harvard men In Coach Wray and the prospects of a victory for the crimson have stimulated enthusi asm this year, and the race-day scenes in the old shipping town are sure to , be lively. In the opinion of close observers the Tale crew this year is not the physical equal of other crews that have won for the blues. Harvard, oh the other hand, has an eight that is considered as fast and as powerful as any sent from Cambridge to meet Yale. Its time row of 20:10 for four miles is alleged by rowing authorities, after discounting unfavorable wind and tide, to be the fastest trial on the river in 20 years. Royal Regatta at Henley. The royal Henley regatta, which will be held on the River Thames. July 3. 4 and 5, promises to be a series of close and exciting contests, crews 'be- ' longing to the recognized governing bodies of rowing in France. Germany, Holland, Belgium and Canada, having beeft entered to compete with the crews of Oxford and Cambridge and Oxford Universities. For the grand challenge cup the most Important event of the regatta, the Argonauts, of Toronto. Canada, are considered the most dangerous. The United States has only one entry in the series, that of the diamond sculls, In which William B. West, of' the Undine Barge Club, of Philadel phia, is entered. West, however, has Been considerably handicapped by hav ing to practice In a strange boat. His own shell was damaged In transit. cepted, such means for defraying the ex penses of a crew being a disqualification for a Henley regatta. The stewards have published a state ment that the report and resolutions of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen show, first, that this committee had not inquired into the status of the Vesper crew, to the extent that it led the Henley committee to believe had been done prior to certifying its qualifications: second, that the cost of sending the crew to Henley was mainly defrayed by public subscription; third, that all the members of the Vesper crew accepted money, and fourth, that the sworn declarations by some of the members of the Vesper Boat Club before a notary public were in some particulars untrue. .... MOB IS THE STRIKERS MAYOR OF ALLEXTOWX CALLS OUT ALL THE POLICE. Thousands Gather In the Streets and Prevent, the Sloving of Trolley Cars. ALLENTOWN. Pa.. June 24. -A strike of motormen and conductors of the Le high Valley Transit Company today led to disturbances that ended In 'the Mayor ordering out the entire police force. To night a crowd of 4000 persons gathered at the transfer point. Sixth and Hamilton streets. Trolley ropes were cut. cars were stalled and the crews greeted with jeers. Nearly every car was then run Into the barns. Along these lines crowds gathered, hoot ing, and in a few instances stones were thrown. . The strikers demand the recognition of their union and the reinstatement of 15 men discharged for belonging to the or ganizatlos. CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 02 deg. ; minimum, 5i. .... TODAY'S Fair and cooler. Northwest winds. National. What the first session of the 'SOth Congress has accomplished. Page 1. Both houses of Congress are rushing their work, and expect, to finisn thU week. i'age 3. Political. Iowa Republican factions are waging bitter war in Gubernatorial campaign. Page 1. Alliance against Odell in New Vork in dan ger of disintegration. Page 4. Russia. Demand for the resignation of the Goremy kin Ministry Is growing stronger. Page 2. Cabinet Minister declares that Wftte is to blame for the revolutionary character of Parliament. Page 2. Rumor of mutiny among garrison at Mos cow. Page 2. Foreign. Elections in the Republic of Panama lead to serious trouble; President Amador's life threatened. Page J, Mr. and Mrs- Longworth entertained by the Kaiser aboard the yacht Hamburg. Page 3 Norwegian-American delegations received, at Trondhjem by King Haakon and Queen Maud. Page 3. Dr. Hyde says there is no prospect of spreading the Gaelic language In Amer ica, Page 1. Mexican priest leads Indian parishioners in looting of heretic's store. Page 2. Domestic Romantic elopement of G. H. Stetson with society girl from Ogontx. Page 2. Mrs. J. J. Cordori. of Los Angeles, roasted to death under wrecked automobile. Page 5- Sport. The lairline Is declared the winner in the yacht race to Honolulu. Page 4. Seals take last game of a very poor series on local diamond. Page 13. Entries for horse show and harness meet July 4. Page 13. Pacific Coast. Commencement- week opens at Eugene. Page 5. Frank Shilling shot by boy brother-in-law at Lostlne. Page 3. Four crews of surveyors at work running & line for a railroad from Natron to Klam ath. Page 4. German companies may use earthquake clause to avoid paying San Francisco losses. Page 4. Portland and Vicinity. Burglars rob Jaeger Bros, jewelry store of gems valued at nearly $3000. Page 1. Grand Jury will investigate street-car acci dents this week. Page 14. polish society on East Side Socialistic not anarchistic. Page 9. , Baby monkey the star attraction at City Park. Page 14. . . V Yesterday the hottest of season; 92 in shade. Page 14. Democrats elect few county officers in Ore gon, Page 9. Miss Anna M. Johnson, insane over Christ la a Science, cuts her own throat and dies. Page 9. HOT CAMPAIGN IS ON IN 101 Republican Factions Expected to Come to Blows in State Convention August 1. TWO TICKETS IN THE FIELD Governor Cummins Makes "Corpor ation Domination" Mis Issue, While the Perkins People Make Strong Point on the Tariff. DE3 MOINES, June 23. (Special.) Iowa Is reeling in the throes of the fiercest Governorship campaign in It history. The feud between the "Progressives" and the 'Standpatters' has spread and intensified, until the Republican party throughout the state la seething with factional strife, the rancor of which bids fair to lead to a hand-to-hand fight in the state convention August 1. the placing of two tickets in the field and a struggle at the polls in No vember in which neither side will be con tent with les3 than the extermination of its rival. To the disinterested spectator the entire fight looks like a contest for the survival of the strongest factionalism Instead of controversy being the foundation of the contest. Governor Cummins Insists on making "corporate domination" the basic issue of his fight. The Perkins men sidestep and argue that the tariff question is the only ono worth while discussing. Cummins Denounced as Democrat. The "Standpats" have adroitly seized the old "Iowa idea" as the strongest Issue within their reach, and are flooding the state with literature denouncing the ex ecutive as a "Democrat" for advocating tariff revision four years ago. The Cummins campaign is based on two comprehensive issues: First Shall the corporations dominate the state? In other words, shall the rail roads select a Governor, and elect him? Second Shall the rights of the electors be extended and safeguarded by the en actment of a uniform primary law? Platform of the "Standpatters." fn the "Stftwlpat" side. Perkins asserts that there 4nt Issue of more than local Importance. Hls supporters, however, are basing their efforts on three points that in speeches and circulars are given the following partisan color: First The tarifT question. Shall the Re publicans elect a Governor who Is at heart a Democrat? Second The third term. Will the Re publicans gratify the ambition of Gover nor Cummins to keep in the political lime light by electing him for another term. In violation of the unwritten law of the state? Third Official extravagance. Why have taxes gone up during the Cummins ad ministration? Scores Railroad Domination. The campaign of Governor Cummins is based on the contention that his opponent, Mr. Perkins, is being supported by the railways of the state; that they are managing the "Standpat" campaign, and that they are seeking to secure absolute control of the next state administration. This is his "corporation domination" Issue. The Senatorship as much as the Gover nor's chair is the stake for which the rival factions are contending. In the im mediate foreground is the ancient feud between Governor Cummins and Secre tary Shaw, revived and Intensified by the prospect that the serious illness of Sena tor Allison may culminate in a vacancy either by death or retirement. A trifle more remote, but still looming large, is the Presidential situation and the ambition of Secretary Shaw to 'secure an indorsement from the Hawkeye state. A Cummins victory would mean political death to Secretary Shaw, so his friends and enemies alike declare, and for that reason the Cabinet official is as vitally Interested In the outcome as are Gover nor Cummins and Perkins. "Standpatters" Have the Machine. The "Progressives" have the delegates but the "Standpats" have the central committee. From the point of view of the Cummins men that Is the Iowa situ ation in a nutshell tonight, while from the position of the Perkins stalwarts the first assertion is fiction and the second fact. It Is still a matter of controversy and the end -Is not to come until the conven tion August 1. The spectacular feature of the Cummins campaign in his attack on the railroad ma chines. He has made "corporation domi nation" a telling phrase in his speeches. Subordinate to all this is his fight for a good primary law, which shall wipe out some of the methods that have been employed in this campaign. Figures That Do Not Jibe. Although there is a prospect that the "Standpats" will bring contests in over a dozen counties, the Cummins leaders maintain that there are only three In which the opposition has acted regularly. They are Wapello, Jasper and Jefferson. Great discrepancies appear in jthe returns as figured by the opposing" sides. The "Standpats" concede between 60 and 700 delegates to Cummins, at most a full hun dred short of enough to nominate, while the "Progressives" claim 857. The comparative strength of the two candidates, as shown in the Cummins ta ble, is as follows, the Rathbun delegates and those from the unlnstructed counties being given to Perkins: Cummins, 857; Perkins, 656; in doubt, 94. Need of a Primary Law. The fierceness, of the partisan fight has endowed the campaign on both sides with features that would hardly have been tolerated In Chicago in the palmy days, when muscle and weight carried the polls. Iowa is without a general primary la-w. and the work is carried on by means of the old-fashioned caucus. In the conduct of which deception. Intrigue and fraud this year have been extensively practiced. Neither aide is without sin in this respect and the ruses and tactics employed by the Perkins side have been duplicated to a degree by the Cummins men. I DROWNED WHILE CANOEING Clerk In War Department and Wife Lost in Potomac. WASHINGTON, June 24. Edward R. Saalbach and his wife, while canoeing in the Potomac River above the Aqueduct bridge this afternoon were drowned, the canoe upsetting. Saalbach was a clerk In the War Department and was about 45 years old. He was appointed from Cali fornia. Two Squalls Met in Bay. RED ANK, N. J.. June 24. One of the boats overturned and sunk in Raritan Bay Saturday afternoon, when two squalls met in the bay and wrought havoc to small craft, was the two-masted schooner Emma Hendrlx, of Perth Am boy, for Red Bank, with a load of coal. Captain Morris Brown and his son Wil liam, 12 years old, and one of the ciew were drowned. Captain Theodore Wilson and his helper were drowned by the capsizing of the schooner Buena Vesta. Four Drowned In Vermont Lake. NEWPORT. Vt.. June 24 Four persons were drowned in Lake Memphramagog late today by the overturning of a canoe. OIL WORKS IN DANGER Phoenix Plant Is Again Threatened by Flames. For. the second tjme within less than a month the plant of the Phoenix Oil Works, on Nineteenth and Roosevelt streets, was threatened with destruction by fire this morning. The fire was dis covered at 1:30 o'clock in the company's stables in the rear of the works. By the strenuous efTorts of the fire department It was confined to the barns and sur rounding sheds, though at one time the flames spread to the mixing-room of the plant, filled with paints and inflammable oils. A horse In one of the barns was burned to death before the firemen could make their way through the fire to re lease it. The lass is estimated at about $1300. Fire breaking out at midnight destroyed the blacksmith shop and toolhouse at the O. R. & N. carshops In Lower Albina. Several freight cars which were on a side track near the burning buildings were saved with difficulty. The loss will not exceed $S00. WEIGHTS PILED ON THE LID Klgld Interpretation of Blue Laws at Louisville. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. June 24. Addition al weights were piled on Louisville's "lid" today as the result of a policy inaugurated by Magistrate Frank Hoff man. Half a dozen cigar stands, soda fountains and other business places were kept open with the object of inviting test arrests. The remainder of the shops that could not under a rigid interpreta tion of the law be classed as works of necessity or charity were closed, even the drug stores in a majority of cases shut ting their doors. No arrests were made during the day. Constables contenting themselves with taking evidence. . SETS HOUSE ON FIRE. Lover Shoots Young Woman When She Tries to Save Belongings. NEW YORK, June 24. The village of Amity, near Morristown, N. J., was the scene of a double tragedy today. Free man Longcore sought to presuade Rose Colly to go away with him. She refused and Longcore subsequently set fire to the house in which she lived. The girl was trying to save some of her effects when Longcore killed her. Neighbors arrived on the scene just af ter the shooting. Longcore fled with the crowd In pursuit, and, being cornered killed himself. BOND FOR BREWER'S WIFE Mrs. Kauffmann, Accused of Mur der, Will Be Released Today. SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. June 24. At mid night last night Circuit Judge Jones ap proved the $25,000 bond furnished for the release of Mrs. Kauffmann, accused of the murder of Agnes Potreris, her maid. It was decided, however, that the woman snould be kept in custody until Monday morning, when she will be taken to her home. The excited condition of the public mind has somewhat subsided, but the police guard around her residence will be maintained for the present. SCHOOLS IN CANAL ZONE Established in Country That Knew Nothing of Free Education. WASHINGTON. June 24. Twenty-three public schools, with an attendance of 1128 pupils; and with 26 teachers, have been established on the Canal Zone by the various municipalities under the direction of the Canal Zone Government. Five of the six municipalities have adopted com pulsory education laws and well attended schools are developing rapidly In a coun try that knew nothing of free schools before the establishment, of the Canal Zone Government. LOSES GRIP HIGH IN THE AIR Woman Amateur Balloonist Falls and Will Probably Die. PEORIA. 111., June 24. Miss Lotta Ams worth, an amateur balloonist, fell 100 feet from her parachute this afternoon, re ceiving probably fatal injuries. Betrayed Military Secrets. ESSEN, June 24. Two workmen em ployed in the Krupp works have been charged with, betraying; military: secrets. BLOOD FLOWS AT E Threats Made Against President's Life AMERICAN MARINES ARE READY May Be Called Upon to Quell Incipient Revolution. MAGOON WAS CHEERED With Consul-General Shanklln and Lnited States. Naval Officers, He Appears on Streets and L'rges Moderation in Speech. PANAMA. June 24. (Speclal.V-The ad ministration of President Amador lias been perpetuated as the result of the elections here today, but the conditions are now such on the isthmus that were it not for the presence here of a large body of American marines, well armed and equipped, and several gatllng guns mounted along the canal strip, a revolu tion would already be in progress. Aa matters stand there is a feeling of sullen discontent among the more progressiva of the Inhabitants of the Panama re public, which may yet break out in open: revolution. Threats of assassination are freely mada and it is openly asserted by the Liberals that Dr. Amador will hardly live much longer. Today's election, while only for mem bers of the Municipal Council, was ad mitted to be a test, and upon its out come depended the result of the general elections to be held later. Revolutionists on the Way. It is rumored that a large number of Guatemalans are on the way here for the purpose of aiding ir. an attempt to over throw the Amador administration. Color Is lent to this report by the presence on the outskirts of the city of a detachment of 300 American marines with gatllng guns. They were sent here by Governor Ma goon, who has so far declined to ex plain their presence. Early Sunday a group of Constitutional Democrats and secret police wrecked the residence of M. Pprras, the Liberal leader, and. It is charged, would have murdered him had he not succeded in escaping in the confusion and taken refuge on ono of the steamers in the harbor. Senor Arosemona, chairman oX the Liberal Conservative coalition, in a, speech this afternoon conceded that the Constitutional Democrats had won, de claring that on account of the intimida tion by Government agents and police fhere was no use trying to count the Liberal votes. He declared that the agentsof Amador would yet reap what they had sowed today. Governor Magoon Restores Order. A serious clash followed Arosemona'a address in Santa Ana Park, in the heart oC the chief Liberal wards, where the police were attacked and a hot fight followed. Serious results were only averted by timely action on the part of Mayor Del casse, brother-in-law of the President, who withdrew the police. During the height of the excitement Governor-General Magoon. Consul-Gen-eral Shanklln, Secretary Santes, several United States naval officers and a num ber of uniformed Zone police put In their appearance. Governor-General Magooni counseled moderation. His remarks were cheered to the echo and Gei'y-al Diaz, one of the Liberal leaders, mafife a speech! asking his partisans to retire, which they) did. Marines May Be Called Upon. It is expected that if trouble Jreaks out tonight American marines will march into) the city and preserve order. Late this afternoon a clash took place between the Liberals and policemen whoj were protecting the ballot-boxes at Santa Ana Park. Nine policemen and Jose An tonio Paredes, a member of one of the best families in Panama, were badly wounded, and one Liberal was killed. Heads Are Broken at Colon. COLON. June 24. The municipal elec tions in Colon today passed off quietly. It is understood the government is vic torious, but the results have not been announced. Early this morning clubs were freely used by both political factions and several persons received broken heads. GOVERNOR HARRIS IS ILL May Not Be Able to Return to Duties at Columbus. . CHICAGO, June 24. A special to the Record-Herald from Cleveland says: Governor Andrew L. Harris, of Ohio, is ill at his home In Eaton. Preble County. He is suffering from exhaustion and acute indigestion and it is doubtful if he .will be able to return to Columbus to take up his duties. No Betting on This Track. EXETER. N. H.. June 24. Attorney General Eastman today received from Governor McLane a letter calling his at tention to the opening of the new race track at Salem and requesting him to see that the state laws against betting are not violated. President Miller, of the club, has assured the Governor that the laws wlU be respected. 1 CIO